823 388 1854 OK THOU, whom, borne on fancy's eager wing 1 pleased remember, and while memory yet I name thee not, lest so despised a name That mingles all my brown with sober gray COWPER. LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS, FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS, BY CHAPMAN, HARVEY, AND OTHERS. III. The Author, Dreaming...... IV. Evangelist directing Christian........ V. Christian running from his Wife and Children... VI. Help drawing Christian out of the Slough of Despond. VII. Christian at the Wicket-gate.... VIII. Interpreter showing Christian the Fire of Grace.. IX. Christian losing his Burden at the Cross.. X. Christian Weeping in the Arbour.... XI. Christian passing the Lions........................................... XII. Christian's Fight with Apollyon.. XIII. The Valley of the Shadow of Death........... XIV. Christian in the Valley of the Shadow of Death.. XV. Christian passing the Cave of Giant Pope..... XVI. The Return of Pliable, derided by "all sorts of people.". XVII. Moses and Christ meeting Faithful................. XVIII. Evangelist pointing out Vanity-Fair.. XIX. Faithful carried to Heaven...................... XX. The Pilgrims in the Dungeon of Giant Despair.. XXVII. The Author awoke from his Second Dream... XXXIV. Halt of the Pilgrims at the Cross where Christian lost his Burden...... 260 XXXVII. The Pilgrims overtaking Honest.. XXXVIII. Great-heart daring Giant Slay-good to Combat. XXXIX. Pilgrims looking at the Pillar of Salt.... XL. Doubting Castle Demolished.. XLI. The Pilgrims rejoicing at the Death of Giant Despair.. XLVIII. Emblematical Design, End of the Pilgrim's Progress.................................................. 449 WHEN Cowper composed his Satires, he hid the name of Whitefield "beneath well-sounding Greek ;" and abstained from mentioning Bunyan while he panegyrized him, "lest so despised a name should move a sneer.' In Bunyan's case this could hardly have been needful forty years ago; for though a just appreciation of our elder and better writers was at that time far less general than it appears to be at present, the author of the Pilgrim's Progress was even then in high repute. His fame may literally be said to have risen; beginning among the people it had made its way up to those who are called the public. In most instances the many receive gradually and slowly the opinions of the few respecting literary merit; and sometimes in assentation to such authority profess with their lips an admiration of they know not what, they know not why. But here the opinion of the multitude had been ratified by the judicious. The people knew what they admired. It is a book which makes its way through the fancy to the understanding and the heart: the child peruses it with wonder and delight; in youth we discover the genius which it displays; its worth is apprehended as we advance in years, and we perceive its merits feelingly in declining age. |